Ulster bombing kills several in Belfast shopping district
A no warning bomb in Belfast's security zone killed at least four people and injured twenty, including a six year old girl. Rescue workers searched rubble as police noted a body hurled into a car. The blast damaged two dozen stores amid sectarian political tension and talks on power sharing.
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Northern Ireland
UPI
Britain
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Moslem and Palestinian gunmen attack Christians near Beirut
Civil warfare rages across Lebanon with fighting centering in Beirut seventh day. Police report about 50 killed and 100 wounded in 48 hours, pushing war toll to over 8,400 dead and 17,860 wounded in nine months.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Mansfield predicts Congress will do little pioneering in election year
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said the election-year second session of the 94th Congress will not enact major new laws, with tax reform possible and CIA reforms likely. He rejected ideas of delaying legislation awaiting a Republican White House outcome and noted energy legislation agreement with the Ford administration.
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Congress
Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Buti
White House
Ford
State of the Union
CIA
Court rules felon may be convicted for firearm transport
The Supreme Court, in a 6 to 2 decision, holds a felon can be convicted of receiving a weapon transported across state lines even if he buys it locally. Justice Blackmun says the 1968 Gun Control Act targets potentially dangerous individuals and applies beyond mail order businesses. Pearl Barrett, convicted in Kentucky in 1967, was involved in this case after his release.
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UPI
Supreme Court
Harry A. Blackmun
Congress
Pearl Barrett
Kentucky
Western Auto Store
Booneville
Massachusetts
North Carolina
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Barrett
John Paul Stevens
Getty Oil fined for part in Arab boycott participation
The Commerce Department fined Getty Oil $1,000 for failing to report participation in the Arab boycott of Israel. Getty exported oil field equipment to Kuwait after certifying no Israeli origin or materials, and did not contest the order. The fine marks Getty as a repeated violator in a wider enforcement pattern.
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UPI
Getty Oil Co
Israel
Commerce Department
Commerce
Getty
Kuwait
Export Administration Office
Los Angeles
Burt Friedman
Department
U.S
FDA to warn doctors over estrogen cancer risk letter
The FDA will issue a nationwide drug bulletin to emphasize the increased risk of uterus cancer from prolonged estrogen use like Premarin. Ayerst Laboratories was accused of downplaying warnings in a prior letter, while labeling changes and lower dosing are being considered.
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UPI
Food and Drug Administration
Ayerst Laboratories
FDA
Ralph Nader
Ayerst
Paris paper names 32 alleged CIA agents abroad
Liberation, a far left Paris newspaper, published names and contact details it says link to CIA operatives at the U.S. Embassy. The report cites a long investigation done with Counterspy and notes the inclusion of addresses and phone numbers, drawing rebukes from police and officials while vowing further disclosures.
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Paris
UPI
Liberation Today
CIA
U.S
Liberation
Counterspy
Richard Welch
Athens
Welch
Chile
Communist Party
KGB
France
Moscow
Philospher Jean-Paul Sartre
Bombs Found Around UN In New York Security Alert
Police disarmed a fourth pipe bomb near the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations as the PLO prepared for a Security Council debate on the Middle East. Three prior devices were removed from under a ramp near the UN Library. A Jewish Defense League claim of responsibility was issued by a caller to news media.
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UPI
United Nations
Palestine Liberation Organization
Security Council
Middle East
Fifth Avenue
79Th Street
42Nd Street
Jewish Defense League
PLO
UN Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold Memorial
Censorship Shuts Ecuador Press After Junta Takeover
A military junta in Quito, two days after deposing President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara, imposed strict censorship. An order bans reporting on the established order and junta members, citing martial law, with foreign reporters and local outlets halting controversial coverage. The UPI correspondent was rejected and newspapers and radio complied.
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Quito
Ecuador
UPI
Guillermo Rodriguez Lara
United Press International
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